Obama Loses Bin Laden Bounce & Signals From The Court
By Gary L. Bauer
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. While the federal government has largely ignored the problems of illegal immigration legal precedents declaring that only the federal government can enforce immigration laws have stymied the efforts of states & localities such as Arizona and Hazelton Pennsylvania to deal with the fallout. That may be changing.
Two weeks ago in a 5-to-3 decision the Supreme Court ruled that the state of Arizona could require businesses to use an electronic system to verify the legal status of new employees.
Yesterday the court vacated a previous ruling against Hazelton Pennsylvania and ordered a new hearing based on its opinion in the Arizona case.
It is always risky to try to predict the outcome of future cases but these rulings suggest that there now may be a majority on the high court that is sympathetic to state and local efforts to crack down on illegal immigration.
Obama Loses Bin Laden Bounce
According to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll 49 of Americans now disapprove of Obamas overall job performance while 47 approve. After the death of Osama bin Laden the Post found Obamas approval rating grew to 56.
The bin Laden bounce is gone and the American people are once again focused on the presidents handling of the economy.
And when it comes to the nations economy and the deficit the Post
reports that Obamas disapproval rating has reached new highs.
Fifty-nine percent of Americans now disapprove of Obamas handling of the economy and 61 disapprove of his handling of the deficit. Moreover 57 of Americans do not believe the economy is in recovery.
It is important to note that polls are just snap shots in time. As noted the results can change dramatically based on recent events.
On Jobs Obama Says We Dont Know
During an interview yesterday with a Cleveland Ohio TV station President Obama was asked explain last weeks disturbing jobs report. Obama said
We dont know yet what happened in terms of this particular blip…
And the people who might know are bailing out.
The latest to jump ship is Austan Goolsbee chairman of Obamas Council of Economic Advisers. With Goolsbees departure Obama will have lost four top economic advisors in less than three years following Peter Orzag Christina Romer and Larry Summers.
Moreover as the New York Times notes Goolsbee is the only economist left on Obamas core economic team.
The Hill also reported late yesterday afternoon that President Obama has stopped receiving the daily economic briefing that he requested when he took
office.
With the unemployment rate above 9 President Obama should consider putting his golf clubs down for a while to make some time for those economic briefings.
